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The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy / Sean Carney.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carney, Seán, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- English drama (Tragedy).
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- Politics in literature.
- Loss (Psychology) in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.
- Contents:
- David Hare: the work of mourning, or, the agony and the ecstasy of the bourgeoisie
- Howard Barker: will and desire
- from the tragedy of socialism to the ecstasy of the unconscious
- Edward Bond: tragedy and postmodernity, or, the Promethean impulse
- Caryl Churchill: the Dionysian Möbius strip
- New English tragedians: the tragedy of the tragic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442663510
- 1442663510
- 9781442663503
- 1442663502
- OCLC:
- 837527941
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